The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-07-01
ENGLISH, or BRUNSWICK,
zAKES SOME REMARKS ABOUT
Mr.. COLES
Queer Conduct In Locating q Bridge
Why He Selected Men From
the Interior.

Brunswick, TENN, June 30.-In
your paper Of April 10, 1887, appers an
article by +. M. Cole, saying: AT the
January term If the County Court
Messrs. Englith, Stewart, Carmsak
a. myself were made q committee to
look into the propriety Of locating a
new bridge site and road acroes Loosa
Hatchie north Of Brunswick. A few
days after the appointment Csrmsck
died, a1d abou! the Goth OF January |
Eng'ish and Stewart made q report |
without giving me any notification Of |
their proceedings. He further .ays, |
Judge Stewart on the 9Th day OF
March, in company with his brother, |
J. ID. Stewart, j. II. Sink, q. l.. DOUG. |
Lac, X. M. McCalla, A. q. Douglas, J. |
A. Bond, j. ID. Slaughter and N. s
Carutherp, road commissioners, and
himself examined the route proposed
by English and Stewart and find that
It will take 300 feet Of bridging and
$500 yards Of levee to make that route
at all practicable, when the other
route proposed by himself aud In.
dorsed by the said J. ID. Stewart aud
Others, will only take 450 feet Of bridg-
ing and he a good, dry route, etc.
Shsmel Shamel for a man that IL
hired by tie public to make such
statements.
In answer, / will say the com.
mittee an stated by Mr.. Cole. YVES sp-
pointed at the January term and that
Mr.. Carmack died soon after, but the
order was for us to make the exami.
nation and report at that term OF
court. Why didn't you, Mr.. Cole.
come over and assist In this matter?
You knew where We lived. We walt
ed until we could wait no longer, for
you. II We had, we should not had
any report for that term. Suppose
while Stuart and myself were wading
around In mud, water and Ice for
nothing and boarding ourselves you
were At home with your feet 10 the
fire and diawing your So 80 per day.
Now, Mr.. Cole, did ]. q. Stewart Sign
your report OF did he give his consent
10 the moving OF the road? Did your
committee live near the river on each
side, or do they live six and one half
TO seven miles north Of said bridge?
Did your committee 70 over the pro.
posed road or stop on the north end
OF old bridge? Don't you know that
You took two or three Of your commit
Tee and went down on the north side
OF the river TO your proposed bridge
site, and Ia II not fact that not one
OF your committee ever creased the
river TO look at the proposed route on
this sideP And did you not have
your report already written up before
you brought your committee down
there, and did you not take it
from your pocket and pass 1t
around for signatures while on
the north end Of the bridge?
Don't you know that the bottom 10
not $500 yards wide at this place
then why say II will take that amount
OF leveeing; don't you know that
there Is not one piece Of crossway tim
Der nor one foot Of levee on the pres
ent road2 When you went 10 see A.
NJ. Bledsoe 10 see what he would lake
for the right OF way for q roadbed for
your road, what did you mean by say
ing 10 him 81 will show them which
has the most iniluence with the
County Court, myself or English and
Stewart Nathan Stewart was raised
in q quarter OF q mile Of this place
and Ia now living about . mile and
quarter north OF Hatchie river and
sending FIVE children 10 school regu.
larly TO this place, and l have lived
here more than tgenty.Bix years, and
nearly all my land lies north OF
Hatchie, and eighttenths Of my trade
comes from north OF HAtohie. Is II
not reasonable that We know more
and have q greater interest than you ?
Mr.. Cole, would II not have looked
better in you (lf you could not have
been with tewGrt aud myself when
We made the examlnati nj that when
you did come over TO have got Stew.
at, myself and m many others ~ you
could (il 81 desired), and all Of us
went down lhoIe together aud have
come 10 some agreement, than for you
to have gone away Gu, into the int.
r!Cr ard got men that we're loss yersed
about the boitom2
Now, friend Cole, | will give You
and the honorable County Cont the
length Of each road, and the bridging
now on the old read, al OF which Ia
com paratiyely new except No. 4, aud
u n new bridge be built st the point
sel,o'td by justice JIG, Stewart, N.
Stewart aud myself, No. 8 will be done
away with. ] also give length OF new
route aud amount OF bridging nect ,sa-
~ TO make u passahle, as measured In
June, 1887, by y. y. Fleetwood, X A.
aneed, Esq., &. q. Hughes, w. III.
Bond aud myself, aud all stand agreed
on the work except fifty feet bridging.
One Of the party think fifty feet Of
crosawsy will dc, and the other four
think u necessary 70 be bTidged.
Length Of old road from center Of reil.
ROAD track In Brunswick TO q point
north Of Hatchie whore new road
would intersect Ia 22l8 yards; length
Of bridge No. l 10 GA feat. No. 2 1877
feet, No. 5 la feet, No. $50 feet,
total length OF bridging 1851 feet.
Length OF new route ffom and 10 the
same points a. given above Ia 1888
yards; length Of bridge No. 47B feet,
No, 2 100 feet, No. 3 80 feet; total $50
icet.
! Friend Cole, You say your route will
be good dry, practical route; shame
20 you, when the river Is At i's highest
Il 10 about one mile vide here and not
one foot Of land bat 10 under water
that | ever heard Of
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